In the Trenches – 12-16-2004

Posted on 12/17/2004 by Kevin Devin

In this podcast I provide a brief update of my firewall project, the release of Doppler RC1, Comment SPAM-Bots, a script to close comments for MT site owners, a helpful plug-in for WordPress sites, and a funny story of co-worker of a buddy of mine and his adventures with IT and web content filters on Proxy servers. (if you get my meaning) ;-)

Links mentioned in this podcast:

- Doppler RC1 Released
- MT-Close script
- WP-Snowball Effect Plugin
- Inno Setup

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3 Responses to In the Trenches – 12-16-2004

  1. Mark J says:
    12/17/2004 at 12:55 am

    Thanks for the Snowball Effect mention. Keep in mind that the plugin has been improved and moved into DrDave’s Spam Karma, and that’s what I’m recommending that people use. It kicks major butt, and is actually turning into a reason for people to switch to WP.

  2. Mike McBride says:
    12/17/2004 at 7:29 am

    Kevin,

    Does closing comments actually lessen the server load by a whole lot? Seems to me that the bots are still hitting the comments script over and over again, only their attempts aren’t being posted because the comments are closed, but the traffic directly to the script is still pretty overwhelming. Or am I misunderstanding? I did the same thing with closing comments and still see 400 hits a day to mt-comments.cgi, just no actual comments.

  3. Kevin H. Devin says:
    12/17/2004 at 7:56 am

    By a whole lot? Good question. My assumption would be that you’d still see the hits on the script handled by the web server, but that would still be less expensive than the complete Apache/IIS response ..AND.. the MySQL transaction. It’d be nice to see some statistics… but I’m not going to offer up my site for them. :-)